@silvercard - thanks for the idea. I downloaded the older netbookinstaller 0.8.3 and that seemed to solve the problem. I am using a retail 10.6.0 DVD so maybe that's why. I don't know.

Anyway, it was working fine until I installed the RAlink 2860 wifi driver. Now it randomly kernel panics, especially with anything related to shutdown or sleep or lid closing. After a kernel panic it sometimes takes several power cycles to get it to boot again without an immediate kernel panic. I'll be removing the RAlink driver as soon as I finish typing this.

Someone in this thread mentioned downloading RAlink 2870 drivers which support OSX 10.6 but the only 2870 drivers I could find on the RAlink website were for USB wifi not miniPCI wifi.

Does anyone have their ASUS 1000HE with AW-NE766 wireless working? (you can check your wireless module on a sticker under the battery)